Peace is Inevitable

"When a situation has been dedicated wholly to truth, peace is inevitable."
-- A Course in Miracles

Peace is inevitable. Whenever I toss and turn and chew on a problem, whenever difficulties arise, the one thing I have come to accept is that there is nothing to fear in any of it. As soon as I relax and want only what is true in any situation, I am instantly at peace. The only conclusion is that I am in peace all the time, and my preoccupation with details and stories simply acts like a veil over my awareness. But the ground of my Being is peace.

How do we release all of our judgments and stories and want only what is true in any situation? This seems to be asking a lot for a mere human, living in a world where survival seems predicated on the laws (judgments and stories) of the land. Where is the peace in that?

When Jeshua ben Joseph, aka Jesus, told us to be in the world but not of it, he was pointing to the way it really works. There is a way of Being in the world that includes but is not subject to the normal laws. And the simple peace that is the ground of our Being is the Way. When we dedicate any situation to truth, when we rest in this, we catch the wave of peace. This wave will carry us through any situation unscathed, regardless of appearances. This wave is our ticket home. And wave is a good analogy for this peace, since it enfolds us in waves of bliss that are so all-inclusive and pleasurable that there is no reference for it in the world as we have known it.

Peace is inevitable, because it is who we are... it is home... it is life itself. Thank God.